OG Loc

Jeffrey "OG Loc" Cross (1973-) was an African-American rapper and an aspiring member of the Grove Street Families street gang of Los Angeles. He stole Madd Dogg's rhyme book in 1992 in an attempt to become a better rapper than him, but his career failed, and Madd Dogg became a big hit.

Biography
Jeffrey Cross was born in 1973 in Compton, California to an African-American family. He grew up on Grove Street, where he befriended Grove Street Families gangsters such as Sweet Johnson and Big Smoke; however, his lack of physical capabilities led to the scrawny Cross being unable to join the GSF. Johnson told him to leave the ghetto and go to college, but Cross wanted to become a gangster rapper instead, and he decided to get himself into jail by doing crimes such as joyriding and parking meter violations in order to give him "street cred" for his career.

During his stay in prison, he was raped by Vagos member Freddy Del Castillo, and he would claim that Del Castillo "stole his rhymes" in order to justify the need for his death to his friend Carl Johnson. On Cross' release in early 1992, he demanded that CJ call him "OG Loc", his rap name, and the two of them chased Del Castillo down before OG Loc killed him with a Micro-Uzi. He was then driven to the burger restaurant in Venice Beach where he was supposed to work, and he told CJ to visit him sometimes.

Rap career
OG Loc began planning a concert to be held at a house on Grove Street, but he needed a sound system for the concert. CJ headed to the beach and stole a sound van and took the system to a lockup, where it was stored for the party. He then assassinated rival rapper Madd Dogg's manager Alan Crawford and then stole his rhyme book from his mansion, and he returned to OG Loc, who held the party on Grove Street. It was filled with tone-deaf, horrible music, and CJ left the party rather than listen to the bad music.

After Big Smoke betrayed the Grove Street Families and founded a crack empire, he decided to become OG Loc's manager to launder his money, claiming that his drug money came from record sales. Loc released Str8 From Tha Streetz, his only album, and he also founded the LocDown clothing company. Later, his former friend CJ, who was partnered with Madd Dogg, chased OG Loc from his music video set in Flint County back to his recording studio in LA, where he forced OG Loc to return his rhyme book to Madd Dogg and give him the royalties for his album. After Big Smoke's death in May 1992, OG Loc quit the rap game, and he returned to the streets.